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How to place label of component horizontally in GridLayout?

Andy A
7 years ago Jul 16, 2015 3:18am

I use GridLayout and when I place a component (radio button, text, drop down list ...etc.) in it, the label is on top of the component.  How can I make it so the label is next to the component.  If I use the FormLayout then the label is next to the component but not GridLayout.

Thanks

Michael Tzukanov
7 years ago Jul 20, 2015 11:12am

It's a trick that the FormLayout does, not easy to implement on your own. You can try to customizing v-caption-on-top stylename or remove it from the component.
I guess the easiest would be to simply create new labels instead of captions.
 

Andy A
7 years ago Jul 21, 2015 3:43am

I added a label and removed the caption. I added the label on the first column and the radio buttons on the 2nd column of the same row but it looks like the radio buttons are positioned a little bit lower than the label.  Do you know why?

Michael Tzukanov
7 years ago Jul 21, 2015 5:57am

Probably some margins/paddings. Either add the necessary paddings or you can set vertical alignment for both the label and the component to middle, should be enough.

Marius Reinwald
7 years ago Jul 21, 2015 6:25am

FYI In the new maven example archetype they use a ValoTheme Style that positions the Caption of a Textfield to the left of the Component. You can see that on the Login Screen:
https://vaadin.com/blog/-/blogs/vaadin-7-3-7-and-new-maven-archetypes

Edit: After i looked at it again now it seems like they use a Formlayout so i'm not entirely sure if it might just be that and not a style.

Another Edit: While it is possible to do with css (using mainly display:inline-block) it is probably easer to just a CssLayout/Horizontallayout, a label and a seperate Textfield.

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